{"id":446,"date":"2008-04-07T22:59:36","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T04:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/2008\/04\/07\/446\/"},"modified":"2008-04-07T22:59:36","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T04:59:36","slug":"446","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/orange-portrait.jpg\" title=\"Orange Portrait\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/orange-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"Orange Portrait\" \/> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/orange-eggs-close-up.jpg\" title=\"Orange eggs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/orange-eggs-close-up.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Orange eggs\" \/> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/orange-profile.jpg\" title=\"Orange Profile\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/orange-profile.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Orange Profile\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The eggs glued to the tummy of the above shrimp are hatching today, a few at a time.  I&#8217;ve made a few attempts at raising the larvae with no success.  No one seems to have any idea what species it is, or what conditions the zoes need, or even where they come from in the first place.  So&#8230; I spent most of my evening taking plankton photos.  These are using a toy digital microscope:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/orange-zoe-dorsal.jpg\" title=\"Orange Zoe Dorsal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/orange-zoe-dorsal.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Orange Zoe Dorsal\" \/> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/orange-zoe-profile.jpg\" title=\"Orange Zoe Profile\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/orange-zoe-profile.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Orange Zoe Profile\" \/> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/orange-zoe.jpg\" title=\"Orange Zoe\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/orange-zoe.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Orange Zoe\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And these using the macro lense on my tiny camera:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/orange-zoe-macro-profile.jpg\" title=\"Orange Zoe Macro Profile\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/orange-zoe-macro-profile.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Orange Zoe Macro Profile\" \/> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/orange-zoe-macro-dorsal.jpg\" title=\"Orange Zoe Macro Dorsal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/orange-zoe-macro-dorsal.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Orange Zoe Macro Dorsal\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m enjoying fussing with the gadgets, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m going to learn much.  My photos look the same as those of a different species <a href=\"http:\/\/caridina.japonica.online.fr\/English\/Elevage_2.htm\" title=\"here\">here<\/a>, and these of a different genus <a href=\"http:\/\/planetinverts.com\/Purple_Zebra_Shrimp.html\" title=\"here\">here<\/a>.  Too bad they don&#8217;t make $100 child-friendly DNA sequencers.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, in my increasingly silly attempts to keep the zoes alive, I&#8217;ve set up an array of tiny tanks with varying salinity, all in a great big tank to maintain a constant temperature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/plankton-tanks.jpg\" title=\"Plankton tanks\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/plankton-tanks.jpg\" alt=\"Plankton tanks\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDetails as events warrant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eggs glued to the tummy of the above shrimp are hatching today, a few at a time. I&#8217;ve made a few attempts at raising the larvae with no success. No one seems to have any idea what species it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?p=446\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-critters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}